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Are you traveling for Thanksgiving next week? If so, along with your travel essentials for trip, AAA advises you also pack your patience.
The auto club group anticipates record-setting travel numbers for Thanksgiving, both in Florida and across the nation. More than 4.5 million Floridians are forecast to travel 50 miles or more for the holiday, with over 4 million of them taking to the roads. The rest will be flying or going by train, bus or on a cruise.
Those numbers are, like the last three years of AAA’s furnished stats, an all-time Thanksgiving high. And, Florida’s increased numbers mirror the rest of the country as a whole.
These record-setting traveler numbers are being driven by economic growth, declining inflation, and strong income gains, which is expected to boost consumer spending by 4.6% compared to this time last year.
“We expect to see record travel numbers across the board,” said Debbie Haas, Vice President of Travel for AAA—The Auto Club Group. “With more people taking to the roads, skies, rails, and sea; travelers should expect congested roads and longer lines at transportation terminals. AAA encourages travelers to develop their plan now and consider travel insurance, which provides compensation for flight cancellations, delays, and lost luggage.”
In effort to better capture the flow of holiday travelers, AAA expanded the number of days in the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. Instead of Wednesday-Sunday, this year’s Thanksgiving holiday travel period is seven days, stretching from Tuesday, Nov. 26 to Monday, Dec. 2.
